Nancy Heche on Thursday explained that
gay people appear to be different because they are trying to conform
to the norms of the gay community.
Nancy Heche is the mother of actress
Anne Heche, who broke up with Ellen DeGeneres in 2000 and is
currently married to James Tupper.
Appearing on Janet Parshall's radio
show, Nancy Heche, the author of The Complete Christian Guide to
Understanding Homosexuality, in which she asserts that being gay
is a choice, challenged a caller's assertion that he doesn't consider
being gay to be an “emotional or choice-oriented kind of decision.”
“Their behavior doesn't seem to be
affected, it seems to be genuine. And it seems that they are
compelled to be this way,” the caller said. “I don't know if
it's hormonal differences or whatever chemical differences in the
endocrine system in the body that affect the brain and the body but
there is something going on that's more than just emotional or
choice-oriented kind of decisions that these people make.”
“What I think is that oftentimes once
one associates herself or himself with a gay community or a gay
fellowship group they settle in and want to make a distinction from
others – others in the heterosexual world – they want to make a
distinction and a statement about who they are,” Heche
explained. “I'm just saying this might be 1 percent of the
people you're talking about or 99 percent. But sometimes I think
people make a point to adapt and adopt to the community that they are
associating with. It's kind of like this when teenage girls start
wearing makeup then they all want to wear makeup and if the in-group
is wearing frilly skirts and ruffle t-shirts then everybody is going
to wear a ruffle t-shirt. That might be very oversimplifying it but
I think it is maybe a tiny explanation for a small group of people
that you're talking about. Does that make sense? Do you understand
what I’m saying?”